Caroline Batoff was hiking around the Porcupine Mountain area of Wilderness State Park. She had not seen nor heard another hiker for at least an hour. About 100 yards ahead of her she saw a figure moving slowly across her path.

Batoff’s first impulse was to wave and say hello, since she is such a friendly person. But as she got a better look at the figure, she became alarmed.

The figure was nearly pitch black, like light was absorbed into it. Plus the figure was much too large to be a human. When it turned to look at her, she saw the bright yellow eyes burn into her. Batoff stood incredibly still. The creature slowly moved on. Batoff knew that she had just seen a Bigfoot. And that the Bigfoot saw her, too.

While camping with their family, brothers Clinton and Adam Mahula became convinced their camp site was being stalked by a ravenous Bigfoot.

In order to protect themselves and their mom and dad, they came up with a complicated, if not wholly effective, plan of traps and walls.

They spend hours upon hours collecting rocks and branches that they arranged in a four inch high maze. Clinton had the idea that Bigfoot were naturally curious and would get trapped in the maze, trying to figure out the pattern. But there was no pattern and the Bigfoot would get trapped.

Adam was not as certain that a small maze on twigs on the ground would contain an 18 foot tall Bigfoot, but he kept his concerns to himself.

11 year old Noah Dove was riding his new bike around in circles in Freeman Park. At first he thought he saw teenagers were stomping around in the bushes. But as he zoomed closer, Dove smelled something horrible.

Dove said it was like a million farts and a million skunks exploded at the same time. The bad smell only made him more curious to see what gross thing might be hiding in the bushes. But as he got closer he heard these big thuds. Scary thuds.

Dove squinted to get a better look into the bushes. Because squinting helps you see clearer and farther. What Dove glanced through the branches was a beast. A hairy monster with big red eyes and hair like a wet dog.

Dove turned around and sped off toward home as fast as he could. He was pretty sure that the monster would have thought he was super delicious. Later, a friend of his Willy Gumble, said that the park rangers said they found Bigfoot foot prints in Freeman.

Dove told everyone he knew that he saw the monster that made those prints. All his friends, only, kind of believed him.

Monty Christopher told his grandson, Tom Christopher, about the time in 1994 when he was hiking through Seiad Valley on his way along the Pacific Crest trail. It was near dusk and Christopher stopped to tie up his boot again.

That is when Monty heard the stone clacking. At first he thought maybe there was a rock slide somewhere nearby. But then the knocking became too rhythmic. It sounded like someone or some thing clapping two large rocks together and alternating banging them on a tree. The knocking went on for nearly 20 minutes.

When Monty described the sounds to a fellow hiker, they told him it was not uncommon to hear in the valley, since it was a way for the Bigfoot to communicate. Monty was suspicious, but did some research and found out this to be true.

While driving along Big Tujunga Canyon, Jeremy Chaste skidded to a sudden stop along a tight left curve. Stunned he could not even toot his horn, because standing in the middle of the road was a gigantic bigfoot.

The creature was hunched over, picking at something between its massive toes. Bigfoot slowly turned his head to look at Chaste’s silently idling Prius. Chaste was too amazed to be frightened.

Then he remembered that his phone was charging next to him. He could get a photo at least, if not an amazing video. So he slowly, without trying to seem like he was moving, reached over to his phone.

Just then the Bigfoot jumped up, seemed to stick its tongue out at the car before leaping hi up the rocky slope to disappear over the top.

David Keys hiked up to a overhang to get a better scenic view of a valley in Redwood State Park. As he scanned the vista and dug through his napsack looking for his sketch book, Keys caught a glimpse of something very strange.

Racing down the steep, flat front of a rock face was a figure that looked half man, half beast. At first, Keys thought it was an animal that might have taken a tumble. But as he watched it move down the incline, Keys was convinced that it was no normal animal.

For one thing, it was much too large to be a bear or goat. And for another thing, it was moving too quickly and agilely to be falling. When the creature got to the loose rocky bottom of the incline it steadied itself before racing off out of sight.

When Keys described what he saw, his Park Ranger friend agreed that it might have been a Bigfoot. There had been several other reports of strange ape or bear like creatures running around the park.

Eric Killan claims that while camping in the flats of First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, he saw something truly amazing and possibly unbelievable.

Killan was sitting in the sun watching a hawk circle above him, when he noticed a line of dust off to the right. He went into his tent to get his binoculars. When he aimed the spy glasses at the dust, he nearly dropped the binoculars.

He is sure he saw a large North American Primate riding a buffalo. Killan is certain it was a young Bigfoot that straddled the buffalo as it ran in a straight line across the plain. When he was able to dig out his camera the buffalo was no longer running. And the bigfoot was no where to be seen.

Killan is certain he saw what he saw, even though he had eaten a lot of mescaline that morning with breakfast.